Word: relenting
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...barks a few words out and just points to the options on the menu, then to some pictures. I'm not sure what corresponds to what. I give up on figuring out exactly what I'm ordering and relent to being surprised with whatever she slams down in front of me. The first is a tin cup of scalding, watery Ovaltine, followed by my surprise breakfast: a bowl of elbow pasta and beef swimming in a spicy broth studded with cabbage and salted vegetables...
...percentage of .176 themselves, the difference was enough to overpower the Crimson. Harvard played from behind for the remainder of the match, surrendering, 30-25.In the third stanza, Harvard battled to stay in the game, as the game featured nine ties and three lead-changes. But St. Ambrose refused to relent in its offensive onslaught, as the Fighting Bees recorded a hitting percentage of .368 and slammed down a match-high 20 kills in the final game. The Crimson kept close, but fell short in the end, 30-27.Kuld led the Crimson with a match-high 14 kills, and Weissbourd followed close...
...Mitzi was willing to relent on the comedians' most reasonable demand, the one that had sparked the whole uprising, agreeing to pay the comics who performed in the Main Room one half of the cover charges. But while that was fine for the top tier of comics big enough to play the Main Room, it meant the vast majority of lesser names would still be working for nothing in the Original Room. So the comics turned it down and dug in for a fight...
...more about Rob Thomas’s desperate inner-state than you ever realized (“I started crying and I couldn’t stop myself”), and shift nervously in our seats. Rob fixes you with his crazy, crazy eyes—and so you relent to play therapist to his apocalyptic paranoia a tad bit longer. Rob, Lord of Time, then leads you through a quick stock-film montage: Muhammad Ali fights! Feminism rules! Pelé wins! Matchbox Twenty plays! The Wall falls! Finally, Rob sings “I believe the world is coming...
Some observers hope U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoys can persuade repressive regimes to relent. U.N. officials must certainly use their pulpits to condemn abuses and mobilize international (not simply bilateral) punitive measures. But history has shown that envoys rarely succeed unless the Security Council is united behind them. Until Sudan and Burma begin to hear Chinese footsteps, they will have little incentive to engage in good-faith negotiations...